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We know suffering is everywhere. There are pointless and unnecessary evil in this world that are rationalized and justified for the benefit of some. Yet the world still possess its beauty within. While I said Tehching is not embracing life, I think the man is embracing its darkness. Therefore, the wholeness and the oneness of life. This what appears to be paradoxical is what I experience from his art and perhaps therefore, from my own life.

"I was not there to produce any kind of art. I was not seeking for any kind of beauty. I photographed my mother quietly without much conversation. I spoke to her through the act of taking photographs and she spoke to me by being photographed by my camera."

How can art, in both the formal and informal sense, be made constructively therapeutic for the everyday viewer? Large and looming, and inexplicably beautiful, Twombly’s paintings seduce, and are irrevocable examples of the art experience being both emotional and intellectual.

Every subject in a photograph is someone’s loved one or at least somebody recognizable in someone else’s memory. Photographs preserve some kind of memory. Memory cannot be seen in photographs, but it can be evoked since photographs are, as Barthes says, “the past and the real” from previous experiences.

“I know these projects are totally irrational, totally useless,” he added. “The world can live without them, nobody needs them, only me and Jeanne-Claude. She always made the point that they exist because we like to have them, and if others like them, it’s only a bonus.”

"I think about material as a collaborator - it’s a carefully cultivated relationship. I add different materials to my roster slowly and thoughtfully, but once something makes it onto the list it never leaves."

Before the invention of language, how did we communicate? Life was probably more simple in the ancient time. Human life probably did not differ much from that of the other animals. I am now curious if language was born out of "necessity" or "desire".